Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory

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1: Introduction: Interpreting the Refugee Definition via Human Rights Standards

2: Give Way to the Right: The Evolving Use of Human Rights in New Zealand Refugee Status Determination

3: Island Nation: The Impact of International Human Rights Law on Australian Refugee Law

4: The Human Rights Bases of Refugee Protection in Canada

5: International Human Rights and us Refugee Law: Synergies and Contradictions

6: International Human Rights and Refugee Law: The United Kingdom

7: Refugee Law Jurisprudence from Germany and Human Rights: Cutting Edge or Chilling Effect?

8: The Search for the Outer Edges of Non-refoulement in Europe: Exceptionality and Flagrant Breaches

9: Human Rights in Refugee Protection in Brazil

10: Economic Migrant or Person in Need of Protection? Socio-Economic Rights and Persecution in International Refugee Law

11: An Enabling Interpretation of the Refugee Convention: Determination of Refugee Status in Light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

12: The Right to Refugee Status and the Internal Protection Alternative: What Does the Law Say?

13: [En]gendering International Refugee Protection: Are We There Yet?

14: Defining Refugees: Persecution, Surrogacy and the Human Rights Paradigm

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